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Potential College Free Agent Justin Schultz Could Be A Perfect Option For The Flyers Defense

It has been clear for sometime now that the Philadelphia Flyers need to address their defense corps prior to the beginning of the 2012-13 season. With that in mind, questions have swirled about pending free agent Matt Carle and the possibilities of acquiring one of the Nashville Predators’ superstar defensemen Shea Weber or Ryan Suter.

However, there is one ‘superstar’ option that hasn’t yet been linked to the Flyers but could become a possibility in the near future.

That option is 21-year old Wisconsin Badgers defenseman, Justin Schultz.

Suck It Phaneuf

Flyers End Of Season Injury Report To Be Released Next Week, According To Report

On Thursday afternoon, many expected that the Philadelphia Flyers were going to officially announce their end of season injury report. It is largely assumed that the team is going to have quite a lengthy list, which has led to quite a bit of intrigue as to who will appear on it.

Unfortunately, as of Thursday's end of season media availability session Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren was not able to release the list.

A Friendly Farewell to 'Flyers Goal Scored By'

Today, the popular duo of Fran and Ryan that made up the Flyers Goal Scored By blog hung up their skates. For those who followed the blog, it wasn’t a shock (they had mentioned stepping away for a while), yet it’s still sad.

Or is it?

For two guys who did what they did as well as they did it, it’s a farewell. It’s going out on top from this viewpoint.

If you were to take a screenshot of my Google Chrome browser, you’d see twitter.com/flygoalscoredby come up as soon as the ‘f’ is typed after ‘twitter.’

Perhaps that has little significance. What little significance it may have is that the guys over there, both of whom I consider friends, found a way to make a long hockey season far more entertaining than it should be.

Link Checks 5/9/2012

Flyers news and notes along with Stanley Cup Playoff updates.

Nicklas Grossmann To Have Surgery, According To Report

It is expected that over the course of the next few days and potentially weeks, members of the 2011-12 Philadelphia Flyers will be divulging the truth about injuries that they have sustained this season.

Add shutdown defenseman Nicklas Grossmann to the expecting list.

Kimmo Timonen Suffered Knee Ligament Injury In Round 1, According To Report

With the 2011-12 season officially in the books for the Philadelphia Flyers, the most interesting dynamic left in the year is learning which players are hurt. It’s widely understood that by this time in the year, several players have been battling nagging injuries for extended periods of time and continue to play in order to help the team push through the playoff run.

One such player is Kimmo Timonen.

Link Checks 5/8/2012

Flyers news and notes along with Stanley Cup Playoff updates.

Flyers Devils ECSF Game 5 Preview: Hard To Think Flyers On The Brink

The Philadelphia Flyers will have to win or go home tonight as they are on the brink of elimination for the first time in this season's playoffs when they host the New Jersey Devils in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semi Finals.

They will be doing so without the NHL's leading goal scorer in this year's playoffs, Claude Giroux.

Link Checks 5/7/2012

Flyers news and notes along with Stanley Cup Playoff updates.

Claude Giroux Suspended One Game

Following a 4-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, not much was going well for the Philadelphia Flyers. On the lesser end of a three games-to-one series, the team is on the brink of being eliminated from the postseason. While it seems as though things can’t get much worse, they already have.

On Monday afternoon, the NHL’s Department of Player Safety decided to suspend Flyers superstar forward Claude Giroux for one game for an illegal hit to Dainius Zubrus on Sunday night.